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Standby Buster Additional Socket - Recommended By The Energy Savings Trust

  • Standby Buster Additional Socket - Recommended By The Energy Savings Trust
    Standby Buster Additional Socket - Recommended By The Energy Savings Trust
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    This additional socket can be used with an existing remote. Add sockets to control extra appliances with Stanby Buster and increase flexibility and reduce your electricity usage.Standby Buster is a remote controlled electrical socket that lets you switch appliances off completely so that they use no electricity rather than leaving them on standby, unnecessarily using electricity that is costing you money and contributing to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Standby Buster requires no installation. All you have to do is plug into an existing socket to convert it to a remote control Standby Buster is the only product in its class that is recognised by the Energy Saving Trust. To gain this approval, Standby Buster had to pass a rigorous series of tests as laid down by the Energy Saving Trust including demonstrating that it consumed less than 1W. Standby Buster conforms to all relevant standards for use in the UK. Why is standby a bad thing? Many domestic appliances have a standby mode - you may think you have switched the appliance off but it is still using electricity to stay in a standby state. This unnecessary electricity consumption is costing you money and is directly contributing to increased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The convenience of switching on with a remote control is retained by using a Standby Buster. What does leaving your appliances on standby cost? Each appliance consumes a different amount of electricity when it is on standby. The amount of energy used can be calculated for individual appliances, however, a typical home entertainment stack of TV, DVD, digital TV set-top box, a video recorder and a stereo hi-fi system costs about £40* a year while on standby. *Source: Which? report : Use less electricity | 05 October 2006 What is the environmental impact of standby? Norman Baker MP, the Liberal Democrat's environment spokesman in 2005 announced he had calculated that the CO2 emissions from electrical equipment being left on standby that year in the UK were equivalent to 1.4 million long-haul flights. Put another way, the entire population of Glasgow could fly to New York and back again and the resulting emissions would still be less than that from devices left in sleep mode.It was estimated that in the UK in 2005, 7TWh (that's seven thousand million kilowatt hours of electricity was consumed by appliances on standby). If that electricity was produced by coal fired electricity stations, it would consume about 1 million tonnes of coal or over half of all the coal that is open cast mined in England and Wales. How many appliances can be connected to each Standby Buster socket? The Standby Buster socket can have as many devices as are safe connected to it. Generally you would connect many appliances to the Standby Buster socket using a four or six-way block. The power rating of the Standby Buster is 3860W so the combined power use of the appliances you connect must not exceed this. You should also check the rated power of your electrical sockets. The Standby Buster remote control has four pairs of ‘ON/OFF' buttons numbered 1 to 4. Each of these pairs represents a zone. You can connect as many Standby Buster sockets as you want to each zone so for example you could put you TV, DVD, digital TV box and stereo on zone 1, all of your table and free standing lights on zone 2, the TV and DVD in your bedroom on zone 3 etc. How many sockets can I control with my Standby Buster? You can set up your remote to control up to four individual Standby Buster sockets using buttons 1 to 4 or you can set up zones of Standby Buster sockets with more than one socket being controlled by each set of buttons.
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